Word: professed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Audience. Getting the news is just as difficult as getting it out. The Western correspondents have no special privileges. They must stand in line with Habaneros to get their monthly quota of five eggs; most official doors are closed to them, or else they open on government underlings who profess to know nothing...
...there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters...
...Rose, Rose, Roses." To the uninitiated, the Self-Realization Fellowship looks like the religious counterpart of mild curry - a bit of India adapted to Western tastes. Members adopt Indian names upon joining the sect, profess belief in such Hindu concepts as reincarnation. But like Bahai, Subud, Unity, the highbrowish Vedanta Society, and a number of other religious groups, the Self-Realization Fellowship is a syncretic faith, combining ingredients of both Eastern and Western religions. The Fellowship teaches that there is a common truth behind all religious experience, and the members revere both the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita. Fellowship doctrine...
...argues that "white people just aren't going to bowl with colored people-they don't want to use a ball that Negroes have been using." John Carswell, a Chapel Hill drugstore owner, contends that desegregation of his lunch counter would cause "incidents," and many Southern hotelmen profess to fear that if they admitted Negroes, their white trade would go to competitors...
Minus & Plus. But Thayer does profess to see a silver lining among all those thunderclouds. "Most advertisers," says he, "have said that any doubts they had about the value of newspaper advertising were dispelled by the strike." Perhaps. There are some advertisers, like Gimbels' Sales Promotion Director Carl Wagner, who confess that they are beginning "to think seriously about spending in other directions...